Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change -- Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway -- Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausi¬ble speculation -- On the origin of Middle and Modern English -- Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English -- Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English and -- Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison -- An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English -- Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? -- Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts -- On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English -- On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian -- The English double modals: Internal or external change? -- Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax -- Black-White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America -- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum -- Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited -- Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex -- Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English -- Kent and the Low Countries revisited -- Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation -- Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages and dialects -- Index of names.